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"Black Balloon Flower" (Original Post) bif Dec 2023 OP
Thak you bif Inkey Dec 2023 #1
Thank you! bif Dec 2023 #2
Beautiful, I love it Walleye Dec 2023 #3
Thank you! bif Dec 2023 #4
I like your painting very much cyclonefence Dec 2023 #5
Thanks. bif Dec 2023 #6
Lovely! Goddessartist Dec 2023 #7
Thank you! bif Dec 2023 #8

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
5. I like your painting very much
Sun Dec 10, 2023, 10:06 PM
Dec 2023

especially the dramatic black background.

Because I can't do what you do, I hesitate to offer a suggestion on how to do it, but as an amateur botanist I'd have liked to have seen more of the campanulas' shape, not the kind of flat frontal view. I think it not only would have more accuracy but also a depth to your painting. Your color is perfect I think but I do miss that bell-shaped flower.

It's a lovely picture.

bif

(22,716 posts)
6. Thanks.
Sun Dec 10, 2023, 11:53 PM
Dec 2023

Actually, I based the painting on a photo I did of the flowers. That's pretty much exactly the way it looked.

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